Is there a shortage of capital letters?

Jun 26, 2012 3:26 AM

Is there a shortage of capital letters in our country that I wasn't aware of? I'm just curious as I seem to be fixing quite a few questions on this site so I'm figuring it must be representative of some shortage.

Do I need to join the trend to conserve capital letters for future generations? Will my son be in a world with no capitalization?

yes, there is a shortage. it began on woot & clones - no caps anywhere. then there's deals - tags are never in caps, even dvds. then, of course, there's texting which not only doesn't use caps; words aren't spelled out either.

to be totally truthful, i blame everything on the redesign. the yelling, blaring woot plus has burned out my retinas. hard to tell caps from small letters. my eyes, my eyes! brain gone, too.

tt, your son is doomed to exist in a world of small letters. it's okay, he'll adjust. punctuation is next (fake period here) wait (imagine a ! here) that's gone, too(.)

@samstag: In Soviet woot, there is shortage of capitals all the way from A to backwards R!

But yes, it seems like more and more people cannot be bothered to spend 20 seconds to write proper sentences instead of 15. I'm all for abbreviations when texting or what have you, but I really think we need a renaissance of more professional (-ish) writing online. I know that I give a lot more credence to what someone says (or asks) if it's properly written out than to the mongrel English many people use these days.

Edit: Oh, and for giggles lets blame it on the site as well, since the puts the question in all lowercase characters anyway at the top, next to "questions ->" below the horizontal bar. I've always found that kind of silly.

I hate to be serious. But I know why I miss many capital letters.
When using my pull-out keyboard on my phone "shift" must be hit BEFORE the letter to be capitalized. I bring that habit to my computer keyboard and I waste a lot of "shifts" by failing to hold the key down. IT DRIVES ME MAD TO HAVE TO FIX IT!

as you noted to me in an earlier comment: my keyboard seems to be missing the shift keys. occasionally one will stop by to visit, but usually it's just a passing thing. sorry it (and i) bug you so much.

Everyone is horse from all the YELLING online. When the election approaches all the saved up Capitals will come back with a vengeance. Then you'll be asking does anyone know where the lower case letters went?

@pitamuffin: According to Aristotle, the virtuous habit of action is always an intermediate state between the opposed vices of excess and deficiency. I kinda like Aristotle, and dislike excess punctuation.

Might be a me thing. Also possibly took too much philosophy in college.

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